How To Use Mourner In A Sentence
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Afterwards, mourners were invited for refreshments by the nuns.
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But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
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The introject and the corresponding self-image of the mourner are in a constant and endless relationship.
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The only mourners at her funeral are the women from the refuge.
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Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes!
The Maids of Paradise
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One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon.
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In one sense, Schaller correctly assesses the New Paradigm refuseniks as mourners for the lost order.
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Ancient Greeks buried their dead with lacrimatories, vials full of mourners' tears.
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It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery.
Times, Sunday Times
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No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.
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As a result, the family requested mourners to make donations to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance appeal in lieu of flowers.
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Burial took place in Butlerstown cemetery on Thursday last, in the presence of a huge concourse of mourners, following Requiem Mass.
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Mourners are remembering Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson will lie in repose until Saturday.
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Hundreds of mourners attended the teenager's funeral last week.
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The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
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The funeral prayers took place after Friday prayers and roads were closed as police re-routed traffic away from the mourners.
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Mourners will follow in souped-up, bodykitted Corsas with dustbin exhausts.
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The large concourse of mourners who visited the residence and attended the church were evidence of the enormous popularity of Billy in Dunhill and surrounding areas.
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Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys.
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HUNDREDS of mourners pay their respects yesterday as five tragic helicopter heroes return home.
The Sun
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wailing mourners
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Mourners placed flowers and wreaths at the graves, including one where two sisters Alina, 12 and Ira, 13, were laid to rest together.
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Meanwhile, more than 300 mourners attended Clare's funeral, at St George's Church, to remember the life of their friend and colleague.
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Only about half the mourners were able to fit into the chapel, the rest having to stand outside throughout.
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The tears jest run down most everybody's face, and when the mourners wuz addressed, why, big, hefty men all round me jest boohooed right out.
Samantha at the World's Fair
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The hundreds of mourners who attended Jennifer's funeral mass heard Patricia read the tribute before the service began.
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This linking object unconsciously connects the lost person's image or mental representation with the mourner's corresponding self-image or representation.
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Both sides of the crossing were covered with flowers by mourners, who left bouquets and countless soft toys as a mark of respect.
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In another photograph a young man, apparently zonked and naked from the waist up, assumes a Christ-like pose with his arms out, as his "mourners" support him above the snow.
Shining a Light on Loss
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Television may have conveyed the impression that Diana's multitudinous mourners spoke, or rather sobbed, for the whole of Britain.
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The mourners came in traditional dress - frock coats, top hats and bowlers.
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The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
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The incident happened in 1994 as mourners gathered after the funeral of the boy's grandfather.
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More than 130 mourners attended her funeral in Southampton.
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train of mourners
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Father Martin preached to the assembled mourners.
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And when mourners of every age, race, and creed praised him as a great man, I wondered what His Eminence had done to merit those words.
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Corporeal metaphors for the child appear often in the texts, especially when the mourner is not the biological mother.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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The Poems of the mourner himself have now passed through innumerable editions, and are universally known, but if, when Collins died, the same kind of imprecation had been pronounced by a surviving admirer, small is the number whom it would not have comprehended.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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Was it not the duty in Christian charity to try to console the mourner?
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When the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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At the wake of one of the dead, the mourners were adamant that there had been no fighting between insurgents and marines.
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Meanwhile, police have warned mourners attending the funeral that parking in the city centre may be limited.
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On both these occasions, though for very different reasons, the mourners and the mourned were swept together by a powerful tide of emotion.
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Surow sobbed in a squatting position as fellow mourners tried to console him.
Malnourished Somali baby thriving as rare success
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He was the only mourner among the half-dozen without a formal reason for being there.
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Cops and coroner's officials were the only mourners at the funeral.
The Sun
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The concourse of mourners was the largest in living memory and is evidence of the esteem in which the family is held in all communities.
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A large concourse of mourners were present at both removal and funeral mass.
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Witnesses said that the number of security personnel outstripped the mourners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in.
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Former dairy industry colleagues, along with Cork's business and sailing fraternities, were prominent among mourners at the removal of remains in Schull yesterday.
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By nightfall more than a thousand mourners crammed the streets outside the main gates.
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Send for cunning women, that know how to compose mournful ditties, or at least to sing them in mournful tunes and accents, and therefore are made use of at funerals to supply the want of true mourners.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Animals are slaughtered, and food and drinks are brought to feed the mourners.
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Second, it restates the theme of life and forces the mourner to recognize that life must still go on, even though they may feel that it has ended with the loss of the loved one.
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The detective posed as a mourner at the victim's funeral.
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Along the way, mourners lined streets and paid tribute to the dead with bursts of applause.
The Sun
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Amidst a houseful of mourners grieving their beloved, my mother managed to phone me and whisper that this woman, who was forty-one, recently had twins.
Live and Let Love
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The mourners filed past the bier and placed small offerings on the Son's altar for the dead man's sake.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Had it not been for the impatience of the precentor and the grumbling of the mourners outside, there is no saying when the remains would have been lifted through the "bole," or little window.
Auld Licht Idyls
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It'll look like a terribly sad accident, and I'll be the saddest mourner of them all.
THREE IN ONE
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The captivating tear bottle tradition dates back nearly 3,000 years, when mourners were known to collect their tears in a lachrymatory and bury them with loved ones to express honor and devotion.
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The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the great affection in which he was held.
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A MAN was arrested after mourners paying respects to their dead mum saw a rubber skeleton hanging yards away.
The Sun
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Barely a dozen mourners attended the burial because the family could not afford food for a wake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside the apartment, his mother wept as she sat on the floor, surrounded by female relatives and other mourners.
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• Sensing his potential as an actor, Shashi Kapoor deleted his scene as a junior artist playing a mourner from the English film "Bombay Talkie.
Undefined
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The mourners gathered at the freshly dug graves of protesters, including Neda Agha-Soltan, a young woman whose bloodied image has become an icon of the opposition movement.
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The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb.
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The funeral ended and the mourners exited the chapel.
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The overture smote like a dirge on her ear, and when the callboy came to announce that the moment of her entrance was at hand, it reminded her of nothing so much as the feeling of mourners when the sable mute appears at the door, as a signal to form the procession to the tomb.
Mary Anderson
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All but one of the dead were mourners at the funeral of a headteacher who was shot dead at his school near Fallujah.
The Sun
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There were no songs that he knew of to be sung for the Day of Atonement, only the mourner's Kaddish.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the affection and respect Stanley had earned through his life and work.
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At his funeral, there was an outpouring of grief; the streets were lined with mourners.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mourners arrived in their black suits led by the vicar in his white cassock.
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The mourners filed out of the church.
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Guitars are used sparingly, but they ring with precision and elegance, dropping tones as if laying bones to rest beneath a crowd of exultant mourners.
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Mourners are asked to wear something pink or a pink flower, as pink was Amanda's favourite colour.
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Now, the bomb exploded as mourners attended the funeral of a pro - government cleric.
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She says the 200 mourners who attended the service at the crematorium all had special memories of her father.
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Loud rang the mourners 'wail, and one great cry went up, whene'er that winged maiden bore some victim out of sight from the city.
The Phoenissae
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Following Requiem Mass today, the burial took place in the adjoining cemetery in the presence of another vast concourse of mourners.
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Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences.
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More photos and interactive graphics Reuters Mourners carry coffins on Monday during the funerals of protesters killed in weekend clashes in Homs, which is Syria's third-largest city.
Syrians Rally After Crackdown
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Reggie Cleveland told mourners at the memorial in the Cheyenne Civic Center.
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Mourners are asked to wear something pink or a pink flower, as pink was Amanda's favourite colour.
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Victims of the shelling were buried after dark in case mourners were targeted by snipers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The large concourse of mourners present on Friday evening and Saturday morning are evidence of the esteem in which the family are held by their community in Waterford and Margaret's native Dunhill.
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Ollie, who was well known to all, was a quiet inoffensive man and his popularity was evidenced by the large concourse of mourners who attended the funeral.
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In all kinds of societies throughout human history professional mourners, wailers or keeners, have been paid to produce hireling tears.
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A New Orleans-style jazz band headed the funeral cortège as mourners paid their respects to an Old Town institution.
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Mourners and newly-weds could face parking fines under new proposals for Otley town centre.
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There was a large concourse of mourners at his removal on Saturday evening to St. Laurence's Church Ballinroad and again on Sunday morning at his Requiem Mass and interment in the adjoining ceremony.
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Mourners gathered to bid farewell to the victims of the plane tragedy.
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So at a wake, is the focus on the dead or on the mourners?
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It borders on the absurd for the mourner to dance gleefully while his parent lies dead in a fresh grave.
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At a humanist ceremony at York Crematorium, conducted by Maggie Blunt, mourners sat and kneeled in the aisles because every seat was taken.
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To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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To call a mourner by his own name was considered an insult to the departed, and often led to fighting and bloodshed.
Chapter 22. Tabooed Words. § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed
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It will stop frequently to let mourners pay tribute.
The Sun
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During the wake, which can last up to three or four days, the casket is left open, and the mourners can kneel and say a prayer.
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Mourners deserve to honour their loss in peace, quietude and with due respect,’ he went on.
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Hackney cars in Ireland transported brides to weddings, infants to christenings and mourners to funerals.
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In the first scene we meet mourners at a funeral.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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In Thailand a person is likely to compose a small cookbook before her or his death, so that it can be distributed as a keepsake to the mourners attending the funeral.
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Mourners thronged to the funeral.
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No, I mean - what would he do if he had all these unwanted relatives and mourners hanging around the house?
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This is what grieved some of those mourners most.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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Around 600 mourners filled the seats and aisles of St Andrew's to watch Mr Lewis's coffin carried in by some of his friends.
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The matter-of-fact mordancy of Emily Dickinson, the supreme poet of grief, may provide more balm to the mourner than the glad tidings of those who talk about how death can enrich us.
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Today hundreds of mourners were due to attend a joint funeral service at All Saints and Martyrs, Wood Street, in Langley, followed by committal at Blackley crematorium.
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However, when for whatever reason the loss is incommunicable, words no longer function to fill the void, and the mourner strives to deny loss through the implementation of ‘incorporation.’
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One mourner affixed a sign reading "NKVD" on the memorial, covering the word "Nazis" in the inscription such that it read "In memory of Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in 1941.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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The chapel at Rochdale cemetery was packed with mourners for the funeral service, which was led by the Rev Robin Usher, of Milnrow parish church.
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The large concourse of mourners and sympathisers were told how Billy was both methodical and systematic.
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A former Army Ranger and nationally known SWAT trainer, Renninger was a "fast-tracker" in the military, rising from private to sergeant first class in just seven years, Army Chief Warrant Officer Mario Contreras told mourners Friday.
The Guardian World News
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Letters were stuck to headstones instructing mourners to remove ornaments and embellishments because they made the cemetery untidy.
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In a series of thoughts written by his family and friends, mourners heard about a man all remembered as fun-loving and sensitive.
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Over 300 mourners attended the funeral.
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The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm.
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The males, and those of the mourners who were returning to the Hall, including Mark Ryle, stayed for the committal.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The detective posed as a mourner at the victim's funeral.
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When he died of cancer, a hundred thousand mourners viewed his bier.
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The Associated Press released a photo of the procession in North Korea, and a hawk-eyed Reddit contributor was quick to point out an anomaly in the otherwise uniform crowd of mourners.
North Korea's Giant Man Spotted At Kim Jong Il Funeral Procession
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Body contact between mourners and dead relatives is a common way for Ebola to spread.
The Sun
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In Istanbul thousands of mourners gathered for funerals for some of the 17 people killed by twin blasts in a crowded city square.
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Thousands of mourners flocked to witness the burial yesterday amid an outpouring of national grief over their killings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela called anti-apartheid icon Albertina Sisulu "one of the greatest South Africans," as mourners paid their final respects during funeral services in Soweto Saturday.
Mandela Message Uplifts Mourners at Anti-Apartheid Veteran's Funeral
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The prayer is then recited by Mourners for a period of 11 months, three times a day within a quorate of 10 people.
The Book of Job, Part 2, Theodicy on the street
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More than 300 mourners attended an emotional funeral service for the tragic youngsters and their parents.
The Sun
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The mourner is cheared, and the anxious have rest;
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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The cathedral of St Thomas More in Arlington, Virginia, was packed with mourners for her funeral.
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Where once we had professional mourners to simulate grief on behalf of the vastly relieved, we now have mute indifference.
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The mourners stood in silent tribute as the coffin was laid to rest.
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Two attacks on funeral mourners were also confirmed by the team and other sources.
Times, Sunday Times
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When mass was over and more prayers had been said, each body would be brought to its grave by clergy and mourners.
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She was Joined by hundreds of mourners paying tribute to the infants and mothers buried anonymously in the grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the mass, a small number of mourners became upset with the media attention and attempted to block photographers from taking pictures of the coffins as they lay in hearses outside the church.
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The latter was also a full-grown male cotinga, known to a few people in this world as the dark-breasted mourner (_Lipaugus simplex_).
Edge of the Jungle
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And you know what I told you about mourners chirking up, after the first blow!
When Egypt Went Broke
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Inside the apartment, Saeed's mother wept as she sat on the floor, surrounded by female relatives and other mourners.
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While the mourners were busy in the vault, the three village hags, who, notwithstanding the unwonted earliness of the hour, had snuffed the carrion like vultures, were seated on the “through-stane,” and engaged in their wonted unhallowed conference.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Still the line of mourners stretched out the door, visible proof that people genuinely respected Dad.
Christianity Today
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The mourners followed the funeral procession, weeping and wailing.
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Although resembling monks by virtue of their cowls and heavy draperies, the majority of the mourners are laymen.
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More than 1250 mourners attended Wodehouse's funeral in Edmonton.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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There followed the imperial, French, Venetian, and Portuguese ambassadors, the clergy, and a small army of mourners carrying banners and escutcheons decorated with gold and silver.
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But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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Teachers and fellow pupils held a special assembly for her on Monday, and at the site of the crash in Rook Lane Caterham, mourners left flowers, heartfelt messages, photographs and candles.
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The second is that the mnemonic power of a life-size naturalistic effigy vivifies the presence of the dead during the second-burial ceremony, enabling mourners to treat the image as if it were alive.
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The bench upon which they are commanded to sit upon is called the mourner's bench.
Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker
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A Royal British Legion standard bearer was among the many mourners who attended Mrs her funeral.
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The funeral had taken all morning and thousands of angry mourners still milled around the barren cemetery in Gaza.
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Hundreds of mourners gather daily, shedding torrents of tears and managing a few faint smiles as they remember their loved ones.
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The mourners at the funeral entered the church in single file.
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Thousands of chanting mourners attended the funerals of four soldiers killed in early fighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday, his widow, Jane, led about 700 mourners at a funeral at St Mary's Parish Church, just a few hundred yards from the family's home.
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Her only mourners would be her friends at the Country Home.
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This non-selective identification causes problems because the mourner identifies with both the loved and hated aspects or functions of the lost person or thing.
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HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday attended the funeral of the teacher killed when a coach full of pupils crashed on a skiing trip.
The Sun
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In Union Square, the biggest rally gathered beneath an equestrian statue scaled by mourners, draped with American flags and covered with the word ‘Peace’, in chalk.
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The version given to mourners was small and brightly coloured with child-like illustrations depicting favourite Bible scenes.
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I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners.
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Mourners stood in the blistering heat, under tents and trees and cramped under the home.
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The details of their lives reach his ears in the discordant strains of barking seals, tubercular incurables, lowing cattle, bawling mourners, and want-to-be pundits.
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They looked now to where he stood outside the door, receiving commiseration from a group of mourners.
Excerpt: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
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Mufulira Municipal Council workers blocked roads leading to cemeteries to prevent mourners from burying the dead.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties.
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The mourners filed past the bier and placed small offerings on the Son's altar for the dead man's sake.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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The crowd of mourners at his funeral bore witness to the great affection in which he was held.
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While a 'really cool mullah' who had offered to host a 'busload' of mourners for the day told her: 'Iran needs a Renaissance!!!!!!!!!!'
New Internationalist - The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice
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Expect traffic delays while mourners lining the streets throw benefit cheques and bottles of White Lightning in the path of the cortege.
Exclusive: Jade's Funeral Arrangements Leaked
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By noon the pubs and cafés were overflowing with mourners and lines were forming along the sides of the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were privileged viewers; the luxurious Books of Hours with their lavish illuminations had been disbound, so we could see almost every page, reveling in jewel-like color and entrancing detail, while the individualized Mourners, temporarily removed from the tomb for which they were made, could be seen in the round.
Matisse Conquers Two Continents
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Many of these vessels show signs of wear and repair, and, therefore, cannot have been made expressly for the mortuary rite but were either owned by the deceased or given by the mourners.
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Yet when the stage is empty of mourners, there emerges a solitary dancer and the entire mood changes.
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Hundreds of mourners stood at the pier of Arranmore Island yesterday afternoon as the ferry bearing Mr McGowan's remains docked.
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When the mourners arrived they included former neighbours, Co-op work colleagues and the family.
The Sun
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Almost a thousand mourners attended the funeral, with the local Maori meeting house overflowing for the hour-long service.
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Mourners gathered to bid farewell to the victims of the plane tragedy.
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After a few embarrassed minutes the mourners slowly departed, leaving Flaubert jammed into the ground at an oblique angle.
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Father Spellman, presiding, spoke to mourners of a great sadness in all our hearts today.
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That's an interesting point, because he always said there were the mockers and the mourners, and he wanted people to be mourners, not mockers.
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Most mourners had walked along the canal towpath between St James and Devizes Cemetery for the interment.
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Martha delivered the eulogy, which was broadcast to the mourners outside.
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Strong men weep as they never wept before, hopeful men sigh, good men pray and look to God for strength, loyal men are appalled, the bitter partizan is a contrite mourner, none but heartless traitors can rejoice.
A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln
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It was unembarrassed about taking up the mourners' time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Proof of his popularity was the large number of mourners at both his funeral and interment.
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Loud rang the mourners 'wail, and one great cry went up, whene'er that winged maiden bore some victim out of sight from the city.
The Phoenissae
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Fittingly, hundreds of mourners at his funeral wore blue shirts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mourners ranged from the very young to pensioners who had lived their entire lives in the village.
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There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this concrete tower block, due to be demolished next month.
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Boss has found that such losses are uniquely painful, partly because they deprive people of mourning rituals and can go on until the mourner is “physically and emotionally exhausted from the relentless uncertainty.”
2007 April 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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To keep the faces of the mourners from troubling me in my sleep, I lose myself in the feel of sriracha, trying to remember every last note, to wipe everything else away.
The Kitchen Daughter
